The function that Seagate drives hang off of is the ATA security feature set.
Security Set Password - F1h Security Unlock - F2h If you BIOS can’t handle those, you are out of luck. All the BIOSs I’ve looked at in the last 4-5 years support those two commands. Those are typically issued by the BIOS when you have/set a Boot Password or drive password. But you will have to speak to your Motherboard vendor to figure out if it does. johno > On Jan 26, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Daniel Feenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, John Orthoefer wrote: > >> The encryption support is NOT on the motherboard only the ability to “Lock >> drives” or “Set a Drive Password” or a “BIOS Boot Password” (They > > By which you mean that "Set a drive password" is not related to SED, or do > you mean that it is only part of necessary support for SED? I think you mean > the former, but it isn't clear. If the latter, what does it omit? > > daniel feenberg _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
